Brian Elander

The big one is fast approaching. That being the Tour Divide, a 2740 mile (4410km) self supported mountain bike race from Banff Canada to the Mexico Border. There are several schools of thought about how one should approach training for something like this and as it turns out nobody can agree on the right way. That’s probably because there is in fact no right way so my approach has been simple: Go do as much big, dumb, and crazy stuff as possible. Using that as my rubric I would say I’ve succeeded.

In the past month I’ve
• Raced the @letourdefrankie 800km bikepacking race across Mexico
• Raced the @thepacificrace stage race on Costa Rica
• Raced (and won) the @ziarides Royal Gorge 12 duo with @brooxpulford in Colorado
• Gone on many more grand adventures all across the across western United States and Central America

With just about 3 weeks til the start of the Tour Divide I’ve still got time to squeeze in another couple adventures before it’s game time. But even just getting to this point has been an unbelievable joy that that I value tremendously. And hopefully it setting me up well for this crazy thing I have fast approaching in my future.